The alcohol goes to the brain in less than ten minutes

A new study highlights the damage that can lead to regular alcohol consumption. Damage to the brain, sometimes irreversible.

Drink lots of alcohol and quickly has a real impact on cellulescérébrales.Il does not take much time to cause the numbness of our reflexes. A new study has sought to demonstrate the changes occurring in our brains when we consume alcohol and to identify the response time of our cells.

German researchers have been drinking for men and women an amount of alcohol through a straw 90 cm long, while lying in a scanner for an MRI of the brain.

Only after two glasses of wine
Only five to ten minutes after consuming a quantity of alcohol equivalent to three glasses of beer or two glasses of wine, changes in brain cells occur.

Young people are particularly vulnerable. "Already after two glasses of wine or three glasses of beer, helping fatigue among students was extremely rapid effects in the brain," said Pascale Livens, an emergency physician at CHR Namur.

In addition, more than the amount of alcohol ingested, it is above the rate that matters. "The problem is chronic use." The alcoholic drinks large amounts of alcohol